"Your calm and professional manner of response is really draining all the fun out of this. Can you reply more like Dr. Fagbot or something? Call me some names, mention some sand in my vagina or something of the sort. You can't expect me to come up with reasonable arguments man!" -- MaverickZ

A belt system for the whole of MMA, which as has been pointed out many times, is just a set of competition rules is absurd. A belt system for any given MMA gym though is no more ridiculous in itself than a belt system for a TMA school. Granted most guys and girls training in ring sports such as MMA and MT seem to have negative feelings about grade systems but that doesn't make the concept illegitimate in itself.